Cauliflower fried rice

Healthy Kids Community - week 2

Pasta alternative

Like most families, we have our fair share of pasta, spaghetti and rice dishes and you know why, they are soooo easy and quick to make.

So this week we chose a family favourite and shook it up!

I checked the web for pasta alternatives and saw something I had never seen before; people were suing cauliflower as a rice alternative! The poor veg that I always passed in the supermarket unless I fancied cauliflower cheese, had so much more potential.

I needed to tap into this secret world.

Just to side track a tad, hubby and I are BIG lovers of Tapenyaki and I am always so fascinated by how they prepare the rice, and I have long wanted to have a go at some fancy rice myself, now I had my chance, with the cauliflour.

Ingredients

1 cauliflower head

2 TBSP sesame seed oil

1 clove of garlic, diced

half a white onion, diced

1/2 cup of peas

4 carrots, diced

2-3 TBSP light soy sauce

2 eggs,

2 spring onions, chopped

Method

1) grate the head of your cauliflower to create 'rice'

2)pre-heat a large frying pan / wok add the sesame oil, garlic, onion, peas and carrots and gently fry until soft, move to one side of the frying pan

3) add the eggs to the free side of the frying pan, and fry unit cooked, creating a scrambled egg and mix well with the veg.

4) add cauliflower rice and soy sauce to the frying pan and combine all ingredients together. continue to fry until all cooked and tender (approx 5 mins)

5) add spring onions and stir through.

6) serve

Now, this was supposed to be a side dish to chicken or fish when we got back from the local festival, but the weather had other ideas for us, so instead this was a super delicious yummy lunch.

 

Healthy kids community

Something pretty amazing happened.. I have teamed together with a group of amazing mums around the World and we have become the 'Healthy Kids Community.'

Each week we are going to post some amazing alternative and healthy dishes to hopefully inspire other parents and also to keep insipiring ourselves.

I must admit, it was very easy to slip into familar old favourites when it came to cooking for my family, but now I have no choice but to shake things up, and personally I look forward to the challenge.


I hope you are all as excited as I am to get cooking and creating some super amazing dishes for our little tummies to enjoy.

Make sure you follow the whole group of mums on instagram, and some are also on Facebook and Pinterest too!

@katdillicious_kitchen
@cookingforgrey
@whatsbabyeating
@little_miss_s_
@sproutingyumminess
@toddlerandtoast

Plue we also have amazing giveaways happening from time to time :)

NOM NOM KIDS

NOM NOM KIDS!

I’d had a bad night and wasn’t having a particularly great start to the day, but then all that brightened up with the arrival of the postman.

I had received my delivery of NOM NOM KIDS pouches and they were every bit of gorgeous of what I had seen from Instagram.

The vibrant colours and cute animals soon got the seal of approval from Austin.

He loves animals and is getting pretty good at animal noises.

Instantly seeing the monkey and ‘uh uh uhing’ at him.

The pouches are fabulous arriving with an easy to read instruction guide.

The first clean was super easy, blow them up, open their side and clean.

They are easy to fill; attach the lid, open the side, fill to the guide line and zip lock shut.  

We put a couple in the fridge ready for immediate use once chilled and some in the freezer ready for day trips.

Get them out of the freezer in the morning and leave them to defrost during the day until they are ready to use.  

Our first smoothie was banana, frozen mango, frozen strawberries and cow’s milk.

I let Austin help put the fruit in the blender; he’s really good at that bit, one piece of fruit for him, one for blender, one for him, one for the blender...

 

Smoothies are a great way of getting extra nutrients and vitamins into our little people. I like to start my working days with a smoothie to keep me going until lunch, there are no nap times at work for me to have a cheeky ‘pick me up snack.’ Austin always wants to try my smoothie, but as it is from a glass, it’s something that he just hasn’t mastered without a smoothie shower.

I had resorted to doing frozen smoothie ice pops for him, but now, with these pouches he is able to join in with my morning smoothie ritual.

 

And you are not just restricted to smoothies, we've put yogurts and milk shakes in them too!

I highly recommend these pouches, they are in my opinion an essential for your baby weaning / feeding kit.

 

And excellent news, I am giving one lucky instagram follower the chance to win a weaning set of these amazing pouches, which includes 10 pouches, extra lids and a handy pen to keep track of what’s in which.

 

See my original Instagram post for full details.